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Mirroring glass

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Roderick Treece
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Mirroring glass

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I thought I'd start a post dealing with issues regarding mirroring glass.
I recently had the pleasure of having Dave Smith come to my studio to give me a lesson in mixing the chemicals for pouring silver mirroring. It was a great time and a big help .Unfortunaly to short of a time though. In my experimenting as of lately I am getting better at it but I am still falling short of getting a perfect mirrored finish. I just did another round of testing with the chemicals that Dave and I mixed by hand for pouring. I was able to get fairly good results except for this white milky stain you can see on the back. The stain is very faint on the front. If you have any ideas let me know. I feel I am sooo close.

I all so did a spray sample that came out perfect which tells me the cleaning and tin were perfect.

Any suggestion would be very helpful

Thanks
Roderick
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Danny Baronian
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Re: Mirroring glass

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I know what the white ghost is on your glass, AND I know what you we're snacking on.

Next time, refrain from eating Dolly Madison's Powdered donuts prior to blowing on the glass. Static electricity from prepping the glass will just draw that powder right onto the glass!

Either that or you kissed the glass and left your KISS lip / tongue impression, in the dumb notion that it would 'bless' the glass. It won't.

On another note, you did a spray sample, with the same chemicals? If so, it's not the chemicals, my guess would be the cleaning, though knowing you, you have the cleaning down.

Were the spray and the poured samples done in the same place? Was a fan going with one and not the other? Did you throughly rinse off the tin solution, followed by distilled water?
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Tyler Tim
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Re: Mirroring glass

Post by Tyler Tim »

Danny Baronian wrote:I know what the white ghost is on your glass,
Me too.. First the eyes in the RL piece and now the hallow in this one. Someone it looking in form the other side.
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